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A managed AWS service for creating, publishing, and securing REST, HTTP, and WebSocket APIs, often fronting Lambda functions.
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New AWS sign-ups federate to a Google, GitHub or Apple login and arrive as a project whose resource permissions are set by the console and by whatever coding agent the owner pastes AWS's setup text into. The rollout covers new customers only.
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Aurora Serverless v2 idles at about $43 a month at its 0.5-ACU floor, close to three times the whole $15 EC2 box being retired, so the read path became a SQLite file in S3 and the writes went to DynamoDB.
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AWS ends App Mesh support in September 2026. One team scored the replacements on weighted criteria, wrote a rollback for every step, and moved about 40 services in two phases with no outage.
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DynamoDB vector search has been generally available since August 5, 2026. A walkthrough of a serverless search engine shows what a single Lambda actually buys with it, and what choosing 512 dimensions commits a catalogue to.
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Yvan Saf deployed the same serverless Todo API twice on one AWS account, once bare and once hardened, then attacked both from his own terminal. The bare list route reads the whole DynamoDB table because nothing in the request path knows who is calling.
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Agentic retrieval turns one question into an unknown number of lookups, and each is a place isolation can fail, which is why the interesting line in AWS's design is the one still leaving per-user isolation with your application.
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AWS puts a Claude-powered Connect agent on a real phone number and reaches the restaurant backend over MCP. The unforgiving part is the pause the caller hears while that happens.
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A CloudGoat walkthrough moves an API key through SNS into API Gateway and back out of Lambda. Access Analyzer and PMapper both report the user has no access.
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A dev.to walkthrough moves Claude, Nova and Llama IDs out of Lambda code and into AWS AppConfig feature flags. Rollback stops being a deploy, and model choice stops being a code review.
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A dev.to walkthrough routes one URL path to Lambda at the load balancer, leaving the EC2 legacy app and its pipeline alone. The trade is that your routing config now holds the secret.
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A walkthrough of bolting semantic search onto an existing serverless recipes API shows the sync pipeline is now optional. The infrastructure-as-code story has not caught up yet.
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